spontaneous
The spontaneity of a night out is non-existent when you have a child
Much of her conversation lacks spontaneity.
When I first met Norah, I was immediately impressed by her confidence and spontaneity.
Kate has a spontaneity about her that not many actresses have.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not expected or planned
abrupt end
abrupt halt
abruptly
abruptness
ad hoc
inadvertence
inadvertency
inadvertent
inadvertently
inconceivable
sharpness
sine die
spirit
spontaneous
spontaneously
unsuspected
untimely
untoward
unwilled
unwitting

Examples of spontaneity

spontaneity
The problem arose in terms of spontaneity and fluidity of expression when using solely pre-determined synthesis interfaces and functional algorithms to generate sound.
Most importantly, authentic country exhibited a 'live' feel and spontaneity in recorded performance.
The inherent spontaneity of basic events (sometimes called ' actual occasions') is not necessarily a matter of conscious choice.
From time immemorial, spontaneity, music and hope interacted in the human psyche in this way.
It is the composer's structural ingenuity that lends his arias and ensembles their celebrated character of spontaneity, high contrast and yet unity.
It is silly to focus on achieving spontaneity or pleasure in what one does, so the observation goes.
The kinaesthetic nature and role of musical gestures in young children's music-making highlights the spontaneity through which improvised forms emerge.
Other clinical impairments seen include apathy, lack of spontaneity, perseveration and mild dysphasia.
I have a particular interest in some of the people who practise them, cleansing them from the stereotypes of so-called spontaneity.
Receptivity was to be abandoned in favor of a more holistic theory of mental spontaneity.
For example, a preference for spontaneity over planning could lead to poor study habits and ineffective time use.
It is incoherent to think of making spontaneity an explicit goal: spontaneity consists precisely in not having such a self-focused aim.
The determination and spontaneity of those sometimes dimly recorded performances remains immensely communicative across the chasms of time and space.
In this respect esteem is akin to notions like spontaneity.
Here, the apparent spontaneity and naturalism of the approach, the very artlessness of its rhetoric, has worked against the employment of musical soundtrack.
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